Why does matchChunk not see HTML tags?

[kaveh1000]

Consider the following code

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put "good morning" into fld 1
get matchChunk(fld 1, "(mor)", temp_start, temp_end)
put the htmlText of fld 1 into htmltemp 
get matchChunk(htmltemp, "(mor)", temp_start, temp_end)

temp_start and temp_end are 6 and 8 as expected, in the first case. But in the second case I expect them to be 9 and 11, because htmltemp should be

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<p>good morning</p>

Why is the <p> not taken into account?

[bogs]

put the htmlText of fld 1 into htmltemp

My guess would be because there is no <p> in htmlTemp.

For instance, the top field in this picture gets the raw text in a url, then puts the 'htmlText' of that into field 2. When you do that, all tags are stripped I think...

html and htmlText...

[kaveh1000]

But when I put

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put char 1 of htmltemp

before the last line, I get

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<

in the message box

[dunbarx]

Why the parentheses within the quoted literal?

get matchChunk(fld 1, "(mor)", temp_start, temp_end)

Didn't you mean:

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get matchChunk(fld 1, "mor", temp_start, temp_end)

Craig Newman

[bogs]

I could be wrong, its been known to happen

[kaveh1000]

No Craig. You need the brackets so matchChunk remembers what it found. Try each of these two lines in the Message box:

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get matchChunk("hello", "e", temp_start, temp_end); put temp_start

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get matchChunk("hello", "(e)", temp_start, temp_end); put temp_start

Only the second one gives you "2" correctly.

[dunbarx]

Ah. I should read the dictionary more often.

But I do get both the "6,8" and "9,11" in your code snippet.

Craig

[kaveh1000]

Now I am getting them too. Have no idea what I did wrong!!! Anyway looks like happy ending.

[dunbarx]

I am positive, starting with Hyoercard in 1987, that here and there a code run will fail, and then, without changing a thing, work just fine.

This is due either to gremlins or to problems in my brain. I do not believe it can be due to both.

Craig